Literary usage of Fitted out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)"Opinion relative to case of a British vessel captured by a French vessel, purchased
by French citizens, and fitted out as a Privateer in one of our ports. ..."

2.Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)"This caused great excitement, and much larger expeditions were fitted out, in
the two following years, to collect these precious ores. ..."

3.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)"Opinion relative to case of a British vessel captured by a French vessel, purchased
by French citizens, and fitted out as a Privateer in one of our ports. ..."

4.Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)"Prizes are frequently armed and fitted out as vessels of -war. After condemnation
there is no doubt that the captors may so dispose of the prize; ..."

5.Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Transmitted to the by United States Dept. of State (1870)"... he says, If the vessel is to be fitted out, furnished, or equipped, in order
that it may cruise or commit hostilities, it must be fitted out in a manner ..."